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private branch exchange

A telephone system within an institution or business that can only be used by the people inside that establishment. There was an issue with the private branch exchange this morning, but we hope to have the phones working again shortly.

private language

1. A way of communicating that is shared between and understood by only a few people. My sister and I have had our own private language ever since we were girls—our brothers still can't understand it!After working together for so many years, Ellen and I have a private language that is all our own.

2. philosophy A type of inner language only comprehensible to a single person. The concept was introduced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, who argued that it could not exist. The concept of private language is still a topic of debate among philosophers, especially due to its potential ramifications for metaphysics.

private message

A way to communicate only with a select person or people on social media sites or Internet forums. It is most commonly used as a verb. Private message me if you have any questions.If you don't want everyone to see it, send a private message instead of posting it.

private parts

A euphemism for one's genitalia. The senator then asked if I wanted to move my career in the right direction, while placing my hand on his private parts.The images of Adam and Eve most people are familiar with show their private parts covered by fig leaves.

in private

free enterprise

Also, private enterprise. An undertaking on one's own behalf, especially a shady or illegal one. For example, The city treasurer didn't bother with competitive bids; the spirit of free enterprise just led him to his brother-in-law , or The sergeant indulged in a little private enterprise, selling cigarettes on the black market . This sarcastic application of a term that has meant, since about 1885, the freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with a minimum of government control, dates from the mid-1900s.

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private eye

A privately employed detective, as opposed to one working for the police or another authority. For example, The children loved stories about private eyes, and Janey wanted to become one. This expression comes from the term private investigator, the "i" of investigator being changed to "eye," which plays on the idea of a person looking into things. [1930s]

The hypothesis that the supervisor's recommendation for return to the team, job performance (recommendations for future development, and ministry strengths and weaknesses), job satisfaction (organizational life: identification with the mission agency's purposes, distinctives, objectives, and team unity), and attrition would be related to the 16PF traits of conscientiousness, neuroticism, privateness, self reliance, independence, controlled, extroversion, and the ability to bind anxiety was partially supported by the Pearson correlations and multiple regressions that were run.

In the context of most current works of literature, however, when privateness appears, usually narrowminded, destructive for any authentic inner life, the absolutism of love, praised by Konwicki, is essential as air.

On a positive note, the test for privateness of child-specific goods which we develop below will have some power (locally) against alternative hypotheses which specify that the child-specific goods are public but expenditures are not determined in Nash equilibrium.

He shared with Robert Bresson not only an intense privateness and Catholic, conservative bent but also a formal propensity for the 50-mm focal length, "which [most] closely resembles human vision," according to Rohmer's longtime cine-matographer, Nestor Almendros.

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